A Henderson City Council incumbent became the only person this week to file to run in the Oct. 11 elections, but John Wester added an interesting twist: He filed to seek the at-large seat from Ward 3, not the ward seat.
Elissa Yount is in her first term as the at-large representative of Ward 3. Wester has been the ward representative for more than a decade and is the senior member of the council.
Yount has not filed for re-election but has made clear she intends to do so. She could choose to run for the ward seat and avoid a showdown with Wester, but she seems as eager as Wester to let voters choose between them.
Wester did not return a phone call seeking comment Friday night, and we missed an opportunity to talk to Yount about the election earlier in the day as we rushed to get to Chapel Hill for the Durham Summer Swim League championship meet.
But the unpleasantness between Yount and Wester is no secret. Depending on your viewpoint, Wester has been rude and overbearing toward Yount, or Yount has been pigheaded and has held the council hostage with her questioning of a range of projects.
A Wester-Yount contest for the at-large seat would give every voter in the city a chance to weigh in on what has been the dominant personality clash on the council in the past year and to decide between two clearly defined, definitely different approaches to moving Henderson forward.
(Speculation/analysis alert: Moving beyond what we know to what we think for a moment, it’s possible that Wester, with his strong support for the completion of Embassy Square and his advocacy of policies that promote new development, such as the water plant expansion and the Henderson-Vance Economic Partnership, hopes to win a lot of votes in Ward 2, which is the city’s most affluent ward and the one that has the highest voter turnout. Yount, by contrast, has focused more on fixing what we already have, through initiatives such as code compliance and the Clean Up Henderson Committee, and shoring up the city’s finances before taking on major new projects; those positions might play better in Ward 3, where Flint Hill and other parts of South Henderson are in need of redevelopment. End of speculation.)
If nothing else, such a contest would ensure at least one new member of the council come December.
With Wester’s filing Friday, four of the eight council members have signed up to run again: Wester, Mike Rainey, Bernard Alston and Mary Emma Evans. Evans has the only competition so far in Glean Henderson Jr. Besides Yount, Lonnie Davis, Ranger Wilkerson and Harriette Butler have not filed for re-election, nor has Mayor Clem Seifert, who has said he intends to run again.
The deadline for filing is Aug. 5 at noon.
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